Door arrangement for railway cars



March 11 1924. 1,4862% w. E. WINE DOOR ARRANGEMENT FCR RAILWAY CARS' Original Filed Jan. 12, 1922 Wi/nesg @0144 XTM Fatent Mar. II IQZQ.

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A name WILLIAM E. a, or o, co.-

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Application filed January 12, 1922, Serial No. 528,655. Renewed January 21, 1924. v

To all whom it may concern;

:Be it known that I, WILLIAM WINE, a cltizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Toledo, in the county of Lucas 5 and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door Arrangements for Railway Cars, of which: the follo Wll g is a specification.

My invention relatesto new and useful improvements in door arrangements for railway cars, and more especially to the doors and locking means of hopper cars.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an eflicient door stiffening member extending transversely 'of the car for securing and firmly holding a pair of i doors in their proper spaced relation, the said SilllIBhJlg member being provided with means which serve as. seats or ledges for respectively cooperating with.two supporting and locking devices mounted upon op- .posite sides of the car. 1

Another object of the invention is to provide hopper door locking mechanism advantageously applicable to cars in which the side wall or hopper sheet adjacent the dis charge opening for the lading is formed with an outwardly offset portion adapted to overlap the'door when the latter is closed, a1". in which the doors themselves are fashioned with a marginal flange adapted to stand in close proximity to and be overlapped by, a flange of the car side wall bordering the said offset portion.

Another and more specific object of the invention is to provide the hopper doors with a transversely extending stiffening member which is designed to extend beyond the'sides of the door and. to whose ends are 40 fastened reinforcingmembers cooperating with door-locking members carried by the car body, the said stiffening member being reduced at its outer ends to afford clearance for flanges formed on the outer edges of the door and flanges bordering offset portions \oflthe hopper side sheets adjacent the dis charge openings of the hoppers.

A still further-object ofthe invention is to mount a door locking member on a car body having side sheet provided with an outwardly ofiset portion in' such manner that said door locking member may effectively cooperate with a door hinged to the car body and adapted to extend under the said ofiset of the carside sheet. K

shown in Fig. 1.

a With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain new and novel arrangements and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Referring nowto'the drawings showing a preferred embodiment of the invention, Fig. 1 is a. view in side elevation showing a fragmentary portion of a hopper, the edge of one door and a pivotal hook locking the door in its closed position.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the construction Fig. 3 is a fragmentar taken on the line 3-3 of. ig. 1. Fig. :4 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary diagrammatic view of the type of hopper car to, which the invention is shown as applied in the 'receding figures, the dotted lines illustratin the sets of .doors in their open position, an

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view of two hopper doors andthe stiffening member extendingacross the same.

Referrin now to the drawings more in detail, 1 in icates the side wall of a car hopper to which is securely riveted a bracket device 2 forming a housing for a movable door'locking member 3, the latter preferajaw extends downwardly. The bracket device or housing 2 is preferably also associat-' tated into engagement wit the back of the sectional view I '85 bly being formed as a pivoted hook whosehook 3 to retain said hook in door-locking position. The dog 4 may be provided at the rear with a lug 5 affording convenient means for driving the dog to locked position and for moving it to a osition allowing the hook 3 to release. the oor.

In the type of car illustrated-in the drawings each hopper is provided with'a pair of doors, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the open osition of the doors being shown in dotted lines in the former figure. As shown in Fig. 6, the doors 7 and .8 of each pair are arranged in spaced relation-on o Kpsite-sides of the center sills6 of the.car. the pairs of doors are identical only one set willpbe described. In order that they may swing to open position under the influence-of gravity, the doors 7 and 8 are hinged at their upper edges, as diagrammatically illustrated at 9 a near the-free edges of the latter.

two doors 7 and 8 and'preferably extends in outwardly beyond the far sidesof thE door,

as'indicated at 11, the ends of the sti ening member being cut awayor reduced as shown at 12. Rive'ted to the stiflener member-10 at the ends thereof are door supportihg meme w here 13 in the form of angle irons which pro- 'ject-outwardly beyond the adjacent sides 1' of the hopper so as to be capable of cooperating wit the corresponding 3 to su port the doors in close position.

The hopper side walls 1 are. provided adjacent the margin of the hopper discharge enin with an outwardly oflset ortion 14 w ich is adapted to overlie the oor when the latter is in closed position. Bordering 2 said oflset portion on each hopper side sheet is anoutwardly extending marginal flange 15 adapted to overlie a corresponding marginal flange 16 formed alon the adjacent side oflthe door, it being un erstood that each W door is provided with such a flange 16 in proximity to the flanges 15 of the hopper side walls on opposite sides of: the car.

Instead-of terminatingthe flanged stifl'ening member 10 inside of the door flanges 16 v it is preferred, as shown in Fig. 4, to notch the stiflening member by cutting away a portion of one of the flanges and a neighboringpart of the web of the channel 10, thus eflecting a reduction in depth of the channel permittingits ends to clear the door flan es 16 and extend beyond the side walls of t e can This mode of construction effectively preserves the strength of the door structure, as it enables the marginal flange Q5 17 of the channel 10 to extend continuously Y and uninterruptedly along the full length of the channel and especially along the portion 12 thereof which is of reduced depth; and this means of forming the ends of the stifleniill ing members 10 so that they may clear the flanges 16 and extend beyond the hopper *side sheets 1 is more advantageous than oflsetting the ends of saidstiflening members to clear said flanges, for, as will be apparent $5 trom Fig; 5,the preferred form of construcdid tion permits the backsof the doors to come closer-together when the doors are released and permitted, to swingsdownwardly to open pos1t1o'n. I I

The door supporting members 13 which overlap the ends of the stifl'enin'g member 10 are provided with a plurality of angularly disposed flanges respectively extending outwardly beyond the portions of the car body en which the door locking members or hunks door locking member to su ivoted hooks .of the web of the channel.

inseam v 3 are mounted. (l ne of these flanges, 18,

constitutes a seat for cooperatingl port t e-door'in while t e other flange,

locked position to the web of the flanged which is secure stiffening member 10 by means of rivets 19, not only forms a stiflener for said seat ex tending at an angle to the plane of the door,

but also serves to reinforce and strengthen the overlapped portion ofthe member 10. The flange 18 of the angle iron, besides performing its oflice of constituting a seat forf .the cooperating pivoted hook 3, provides a local marginal flange bordering the edge of thenotched portion of the web of the channel 10 in parallel relation to the continuous flange 17 of the channel, which latter projects outwardly from the opposite side This construetion provides means for reinforcing the ends of the door stiffening member 10 in a manwith the ner aflording ample strength to meet the requirements of service and at the same time produces abroad seat for, cooperating with the pivoted hook 3 which will not cause imdue wear either of the hook ledges 20 or the flange 18. Thisconstruction may be advantageously' adopted to eflect economy of inaterial in many types of cars having diflerent arrangements of doors.

secure theangles 13 to the channel 10 are preferably arranged at both sides of the line of engagement of each hook 3-with the neighboringflange 18 ofthe angle member, the majority of the rivets being located inwardly of this line of engagement. This riveting construction forms a part of the subjectmatter of my Patent No. 1,431,506; and said patent also comprehends certain specific applications of the broad features of invention herein described and claimed.

As shown in Fig. i, the rivets 19 which When in door'locking relation the pivoted hooks? lie in substantially horizontal positlons. They are adapted to swing upwardly and downwardly for engagementwith or Y disengagement from the respective cooperating flanges 18 of the door supporting members 13, the door engagin ledges 20 being formed on the lower e ges of the hooks at points somewhat removed from the outermost ends 21 of the latter. The portion 22 of the lower edge of each .hook

is formed'as an approach portion adapted to cooperate with the neighboring flange 18,v so that when the doors are swung to closed position the contact of the said flange 18 with the approach portions of the hooks will cause said'hooks to} swing upwardly, 1

thereby permitting them to ride over the outermost edges of the flanges 18. The

hooks will then fall by gravity so that the corresponding ledges 20 thereof come into engagement with the corresponding flangeslB.

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neeaaao The bracket device or housing 2 for the pivoted door locking hook 3 is secured to the hopper side wall .1 back of the oflset portion 14 of said wall and is preferably made in two parts, the outer portion being spaced from the hop-per side wall and overlying the pivoted hook 3 with which it is associated, and the inner portion constitut ing means for maintaining the door-locking member 3 in spaced relation to the side wall 1 of the hopper permitting it to swing in a plane passing outside of-the flange l5 bordering the offset portion of said hopper side wall. In order that the hooks 3 may not drop by gravity'into positions where their approach portions 22 would not coopconvenientl erate with the flanges 18 of the corresponding door supporting members when the doors are forced shut, the outer or housing porting members 13 and swing the doors upwardly. in unison, the saiddoors being connected by the stiflening member 10. When the doors have reached their closed position, the pivoted hooks 3 will drop by gravity and engage the correspondingly adjacent flanges 18 of the angle members 13, thus maintaining the doors in closed position. The dogs 4 may then be rotated so as to jam them against the rear of the hooks 3, thereby making it impossible for the doors to open accidentally. I I

To open the doors the operation is reversed. The lugs 5 on the locking dogs 4 provide convenient surfaces or projections I which may be hit with a hammer to effect a releasing rotation of said dogs. After this is accomplished the hooks 3 may be forced upwardly and the doors thus be allowed to swing to their open position.

From the foregoing, it will be seen. that I have provided an arrangement whereby.

two ho per ,doors may'be moved in unison and Wlll always be rigidly held in their this function also forming. ledges whichare engaged by the locking devices secured to The entireconstruction is one that cars, a door hinged to the car body and hav ing one edge lying along the car side, a stiffening member secured to the outer face of the door, the same having a web outstanding from the door and having a marginal flange extending continuously and uninterruptedly along one edge of the web, the

said stiffening member having an end projecting outwardly beyond the edge of the door and beneath the side of the car, the said projecting end being of reduced depth compared to that of the major portion of said member and said reduction in depth being effected along the edge of the member opposite to that. carrying the said marginal flange, a local marginal flange secured along. the edge of the projectingend of the stiffening member and arranged to lie substan-- tially parallel with the said continuous marginal flange and bordering the edge of the web opposite that carrying said continuous flange, and a door supporting hook pivoted to the side of the car and arranged to seat beneath the said .local marginal flange. I

2. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a door hinged to-the car body and hava ing one edge lying along the car side, a flanged stiffening member secured to' the outer face of the door with one end thereof extending beyond the line of the car side, a flange portionof the stiflening memher being cut away near the outer end thereofand a flanged reinforcing member being secured to the stiffening member at the said reduced portion thereof, the flange of the reinforcing member lying in a different plane from the flange of the stiflening memher, and door-securing means operatively interposed between the carv side and the flange of the said reinforcing member. 7

3. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a door hinged to the car body and hav ing an out-turned flange formed along-one of its edges, a stlfl'ening member secured to spaced relation, the means accomplishing the outer face of the door and extending over'the flanged edge of the same, the said stiffening member being notched to clear the said flange, a reinforcing member semixed to the stiffening member at the said notched portion thereof, and door securing mechanism carried by the car and adapted to cooperate with said reinforcing member.

4. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a door hinged to the car body and having one edge'lying along the car side, a doorsupporting hook pivoted to the car side adjacent the said edge of the door, and a stiffening member secured to-the outerface of the door provided with an end projecting outwardly beyond the said edge of the door and beyond the line of the car side, the said stiffening member having'for substantially its full length a continuous marginal flange extending uninterruptedly along :the said tending transversely of the body and having its ends extending beyond and connecting both doors and transversely of the car and longitudinallfy ber opposite said flange being of reduced depth as compared. to that of the main por- 5 tion of the stiflening member and being pro:

vided with a local marginal flange in the vicinity of and adapted for engagement by the said door-supporting hook. Y I

5. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a pair of doors hinged side by side to the car body and extending transversely of the same, a stiflening member secured to and connectingbothdoorstomaintainthemin spaced relationship,.said stiflening member being formed of a channel-shaped section excar and longitudinally of the doors near their free edges and having one of itsflanges contacting the door, the said stiflening member being of greater. length than the width of the car the lines of the car sides, the door-contacting flange of the channel being cut away 1 near the ends thereof to form portions of reduced depth, and reinforcing angle irons being secured to duced portions thereof, and door-securing means operatively interposed between the respective car sides and the said reinforcmg angles.

6. In a door arrangement for railway, cars, a pair of doors hin'gedside by side:

to the car body and extending transversely of the same, a channel member secured to and connectin both doors, said channel member exten ing transversely of the car and longitudinally of the doors, near their free edges, and being arranged to hold the two doors in a definite spaced relatibnship and being of greater length thanthe widthof the car body and having its ends-extending beyond the lines of the car sides, door-securing means attached to 'thecar sides adjacent to the ends of the channel member, and reinforcing angles attached to the ends of the channel member, the said angles being arranged for co-operation with the said ,d0orsecuring members.

7. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a' pair of doors hinged side by side to the car body and extending transversel or the same, a stiffening member secure to extending of the doors near their free edges,- said sti tening member being arranged to hold the two doors in adefinite spaced relationshi and being of greaterlength than the width of the car body and having its ends extending beyond the lines of the car sides, door securingmeans attached to the car sides adjacent t e ends of the stifleningmember, and

reinforcing members attached to the ends of ithe stidenmg member, the said reinforcing ma am;

the channel at the said re- 'ing a bracket an 'outwardl members being arranged for co-operation with the said door-securing-means.

8. A. railway car having a. hopper-with discharge opening and a door for said 0 en- .ing, the said hopper includingaside s eet' which is utwar ly oflset near, said discharge opening,

door-securing means carried upon the outer face of the 'side'ofthe hop.-

per and including a bracket secured to the hopper side, ably mounted upon thebracket andoverl ing the oflset portion of'the hopper side s eet, the said bracket being disposed back of the oflset portion of the hopper side sheet and arranged with its outer-'- portion spaced from the hopper side in such manner as to allow the free 0 eration of the said door-locking portion of the hopper side, and meanscarried by said door for cooperating with said door-locking member to support said doon 9. A. railway car having a hopper with a discharge opening and a door for said opention, door-securingmeans carried upon the outer face of said hopper side wall includand a doorrlocking member movably connected to said bracket and over- ,said hopper being formed with a side wall which adjacent the margin of said dis- 1 r 90 a door-locking member movmember a ong the edge. of the said oflset lying said oflset portion of said hopper side 3 wall, said bracket being secured to said hopper side wall back of the said 'oflset portion and having its outer portion spaced from said hopper side wall and overlying said door-locking member, and means carried by said door projecting outwardly beyond said oflset portion of the hopper side wall adapted to cooperate with said doorlocking member to support said door.

- 10. A railway car having a hopper with a discharge opening and a hinged. door for said opening, said door being provided with extending marginal flange,

said hopper 'eing formed with a sidewall L having an outwardly oflset portion adapted to overlap said "door when the latter is in closed position and havinga flange border-' 7 ing said offset portion and lie the said marginal flan a transversely extending anged 'stifl'enin member secured to the outer face of sai door adjacent the free edgethereof, doorsecuringilmeans carried upon the outer face of said opper side wall mcludin a brackadapted to overe of said. door,

et device secured to said side. we 1 back of the oflset portion thereof and a door-lock ing member pivotally connected to said bracket device back of said oflset, 'said bracket device having a portion spaced from said hopper side wall and overlying said door-locking member and also having means naeaeio for maintaining said door-locfin member in spaced relation to said side wal so as to allow it to swing in a plane passing outside of the flange borderingvthe ofiset portion of said hopper side wall, and a dooring one portion thereof forming a seat for said door-looking member and having another portion disposed in a plane at an her, and the other of said flanges forming a ,stifi'ener for said seat disposed at an angle 1 to the plane of the door. 12. A railway dump oar having a discharge opening and a door for said opening, said door being hinged to the car body so as to swing open under, the influence of gravity, a door-locking member movably. mounted upon the oarbody adjacent said discharge opening and projecting outwardly beyondcthe inner face of the door when said door is in closed position, a stifi'ening'memtit) ber secured to the outer face or said door.

adjacent the free edge thereof, and a-fianged member overlappingly secured to the end of said stifiening member and extending out? wardiy beyond. the portion ofthecar' body on which said door-locking member is mounted in position to be supportingly enangle to-s'aid seat and to the plane of said door, v i said door is in closed position,jsaid door 11. A railway dump. car having a dissupporting member having a plurality of charge opening and a hinged door for said flanges extending at an ang e h o her;

.' opening, said door being adapted to swing one of'saidflanges forming a seat for cooperopen under the influence ot gravity, a ating with said door-locking member and the flanged stifiening member secured to the other of said flanges overlapping said stidouter face of said door adjacent the free ener member and forming a stifiener for,

to said stidening member and being pro said seat extending at an angle to the plane of said door. A 13. A railway car having a hopper with a edge thereof, door-locking means movably mounted on the car adjacent said discharge opening and projecting outwardly beyond the inner face of the door whensaid door discharge opening and -a hinged door-tor is in closed position, and adoor-supporting said opening, said hopper being formed member mounted upon said door and with a side wall having an outwardly ofiset ing means to su port said door, said door having a flange bordering said odset porsupporting mom or being rigidly secured 'tion in position to project outwardly beyond the inner face of said door when said door, vided with a plurality-of angularly disposed is in closed position, a ovable door-lockfianges overlapping said stifiening member ing. member overlying said flange and proand extending outwardly beyond the orjecting beyond the same,'and means secured tion of the ear on which said doordoc 'ng to the outer side ot said door cooperating member is mounted, one of said angularly with said door-locking member to support disposed flanges being spaced outwardly said door. I a n from sa d door and eonstitutmgia tier In testimony whereof ii siature, cooperating with said doordocg emu v 7 W iii 1-) WINE,

gaged by said door-locking member when adapted for engagement by said'door-lock portion adapted to overlap said door and v DISCLAIMER 1,486,210.William E. Wine, Toledo, Ohio. DOOR ARRANGEMENT FOR RAILWAY CARS. Patent dated March 11, 1924. Disclaimer filed August 22, 1935, by the assignee, Wine Railway Appliance Company. Hereby enters this disclaimer to that part of the thing patented which is claimed in said patent in the following words, to wit:

1. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a door hinged to the car body and having one edge lying along the ear side, a stiflening member secured to the outer face of the door, the same having a web outstanding from the door and having a marginal flange extending continuously and uninterruptedly along one edge of the web, the said stifiening member having an end projecting outwardly beyond the edge of the door and beneath the side of the car, the said projecting end being of reduced depth compared to that of the major portion of said member and said reduction in depth being effected along the edge of the member opposite to that carrying the said marginal flange, a local marginal flange secured along the edge of the projecting end of the stiffening member and arranged to lie substantially parallel with the said continuous marginal flange and bordering the edge of the web opposite that carrying said continuous flange, and a door supporting hook pivoted to the side of the car and arranged to seat beneath the said local marginal flange.

4. In a door arrangement for railway cars, a door hinged to the car body and having one edge lying along the car side, a door-supporting hook pivoted to the car side adjacent the said edge of the door, and a stiffening member secured to the outer face of the door provided with an end projecting outwardly beyond the said edge of the door and beyond the line of the car side, the said stiffening member having for substantially its full length a continuous marginal flange extending uninterruptedly along the said projecting end thereof, and the edge of the projecting end of the said stiffening member opposite said flange being of reduced depth as compared to that of the main portion of the stiffening member and being provided with a local marginal flange in the vicinity of and adapted for engagement by the said door-supporting hook.

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